Quite a few Canadian newspapers such as The Globe and Mail and the National Post helped me understand the question: What is a Covid pardon? It made the headlines yesterday with Alberta's Premier Danielle Smith saying she is no longer pursuing amnesty for COVID-19 health-rule violators because Canada doesn’t work that way. And that she hadn't contacted prosecutors.
After being sworn into office she said non-vaccinated people were the most discriminated-against group she's ever seen in her lifetime. She had to walk that one back - she later said she was misconstrued after receiving much backlash.
For the pardons, she said "my language may have been imprecise." And then she explained how she didn't call a Crown prosector because she knows she isn't allowed to do that and then corrected it with contacting the attorney general and deputy attorney general. Canadian News media have given her the process to follow: If she wants to cancel fines, she would pass legislation, that in a province, the premier doesn't have the power to provide pardons. It seems strange that the news media is now instructing the provincial premiers on how they get things done.
At the other end of the spectrum, the Toronto Sun had an article about a Kentucky woman who won the lottery after the chose a lottery ticket in a gift swap at her work holiday party. Her winnings? $175,000. The look on her colleagues' faces who didn't choose the ticket?
This is a close-up of another plant in the Niagara Falls conservatory. Maybe it is called Tortoise Plant.
